For the past few weeks it has done nothing but rain, or mist which turned to rain, or flood. It seemed as if there was never going to be another dry day again. I just knew my house was never going to get framed. Then finally this sun came out. It really scared me at first because I hadn't seen it in so long. But then the next day........you got it. It rained. My mom and I still drove by the house site just to see if in that one day that was sunny if something had been done. And from the road we could see that the trusses had been delivered. Then the days to come...more rain. I knew construction would probably be stopped for awhile due to the weather. I mean the house that I rent had a pool in the front yard now. So I could imagine what my house site that was nothing but dirt would look like.
I, of, course knew I was just getting impatient because I knew that once the framing started that the process would take flight. I so badly want to move into my new house. I was to the point of praying to God asking him to stop the rain. But then I realized how selfish that was. So then I was praying to stop the rain during the week and only rain on the weekends. And again I knew I was being selfish thinking only of myself and my house. So then I just asked God to give me patience. So I stopped driving by my house. When people asked me how the construction was coming along I would just say, "I don't know. I figured because of the weather things had probably slowed down." Then this past Thursday morning,October 22, my dad called me and asked, "when was the last time you went and looked at you house?" So I told him about a week. That's when he said,"you might want to go out there because I think it's framed." My first thought, "FRAMED!" Surely not. I mean it has done nothing but rain....for days. So that afternoon after work my sister, mother, and nephew drove to my house to see. And there it was.....framed along with a roof! I was estactic! When did all of this happen? How did it happen? My house site now has a house on it. Not just a foundation. A HOUSE! My house! And a drive way.....I have my own drive way! Of course the day we go out there it had been raining all day....no surprise there. So the ground all around is somewhat soft....okay
it was pure mud. And my nephew could hardly wait to get down in it. It was as if the mud was calling his name and only he could hear it. Of course we didn't put him down until we were inside the house but that didn't matter because the first thing he did was find where the back door was going to be and ran out it with his GG running after him. But not fast enough. He ran across that mud before any of us could get out the door.....and he just looks at us and smiles. How can you get on to him after making that cute face? You can't. There my mother is stuck on the only semi dry patch of mud there is and it's barely big enough for both of her feet and on the other side of the yard is my nephew planning his next escape. It took both me and my sister to make a path with discarded roof shingles all at the same time yelling at my nephew..."don't you do it Brody" and he would just squeal and stomp his feet. After what seemed to be a chase scene from the Benny Hill show (minus the half naked people) we finally get my nephew back into the "house" (hee hee I love saying that). He of course is running from room to room and then he figures out he is able to run in between the boards and we adults.......can not. It's game time. Let the second chase begin.Walking through the framing I have made out the living room area. The picture window will actually face what will be my back yard.
Today, the house has windows and doors...no door knobs which for right now I'm okay with because once the door knobs are put on the doors will be locked and even I won't be able to go in. They construction workers are getting ready to put the air system in. Imagine the living area filled with silver tubes...I can only imagine what my nephew would do if he saw that!! Mental note...don't take Brody back until the silver tubes are placed.
The ground is almost completely dry now and the weather looks as if it is going to be really nice this entire week!
